Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,105, Thomas Furnish, Continental Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Furnish Thomas
S 13/105
Va.
carded
CONTENTS

Rev bran
13.105 INVALID.
File No. 13.105
Thomas Lurmit
Prin. Roll. nar.
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In letter to Hon. R. M. Johnson Oct. 3. 1833
4201
Kentucky
Thomas Furnish of Harrison in the State of Kentucky who was a ser t in the company commanded by Captain Johnson of the Reg t commanded by Richardson in the Va. ★ line for 6 months from 1780
Va. ★ Continental Records completed Jan y 29/1836
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars 0 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Jan y 1833 and sent to Hon. R. M. Johnson: House of Rep s .
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 30. Pension allowance ending 4 th Mar 33 10.
$ 40.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book 26 Vol. 9 Page 39.

Commonwealth of Kentucky 9th Set. Harrison County 3 3
On this 10 th day of Dec r 1832 personally appeared in open court before us Thomas B. Woodyard, Stephen B. Currant William Moore and Lewis Days Esq rs Justices of the County Court of Harrison County now sitting Thos Furnish a resident of the County and state aforesaid aged Twenty-two years on the 15 th day of Feby 1832 Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he was born in Augusta County in the state of Virginia (according to his family register and now in his possession) on the 15 th day of Feby 1760. And that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
Some time about the first of Sept r 1780 he was drafted for three months from the County of Orange in the state of Virginia (where he then resided) and placed under the command of Ensign Richard White, Lt Belfield Cav y , and Captain Benja n Johnson of the Virginia militia and attached to (he thinks) the 8 th Reg t commanded by Col Thos Richardson of the Regular army in Gen l Nelson's Brigade.
He joined the army at Richmond in Virginia, and marched down to a place called Cabbins-point where we lay a considerable time.
We then marched to Petersburg in Va a From thence we returned to Richmond, where we remained watching the movements of Arnold the traitor, then committing great ravages in Va a ; until some time in Dec r when his term of service having expired, he received his discharge and went home a few days

a few days before Christmas.
Again, some time in May 1783 he was drafted from the county of Orange and state of Va. for three months, and served a short time under Capt. George Waugh of the Va. militia attached to the 3rd Regt. commanded by Col. Thomas. Matthews of the regular army. He joined the Virginia Troops at Richmond Va. where he lay for some time, he then in consequence of a deficit regular Artillerists, volunteered and served under the command of Capt. Whitehead Coleman of the United States Light Artillery. We marched from Richmond, and was joined by Genl. Wayne at or near a place then known by the name of Raccoon Ford on the Rappahannock River. The army then under the command of The Marquis La Fayette. We marched back to Richmond; the British having moved off, we proceeded to old Jamestown; there Genl. Wayne gave them battle. He then marched to a place called Hobbin Hills, and remained there until his term of service expired, when he received his discharge and returned home. He remained in Virginia until the spring of 1792 when he moved to Kentucky and has resided here ever since.
This declarant further states that the discharges he received are now lost, and that he has no documentary evidence of his service or discharges.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state or territory whatsoever . Sworn to and subscribed the 1 st day and year aforesaid.
Thomas Forster

We Isaac Munson a clergyman residing in the county of Harrison and state of Kentucky, and John Conner and Abner Haydon residing in the county and state aforesaid. Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Furnish who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in this neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Isaac Munson John Conner Abner Haydon
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated. And the said court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. Isaac Munson Isaac Munson & Abner Haydon who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Harrison and state aforesaid, and that John Conner and Abner
Haydon who has also signed the same are residents of the county & state aforesaid are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit.
Moore J.P.H.C. Lewis D. Haydon  Isaac Munson Mayor of
I Samuel Endicott clerk of the County Court of Harrison County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Furnish for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office this 10 th day of December A.D. 1832. and in the 41 year of the Commonwealth Samuel Endicott C.H.C.
$20 per ann. Hon. R. M. Johnson H.R.